Context Language barriers can influence the health quality and outcomes of limited English
proficiency (LEP) patients at end of life, including symptom assessment and utilization of …

To assess decision-making for cancer treatment among racial/ethnic minority patients, we
systematically reviewed and synthesized evidence from studies of “shared decision …

Abstract Information management is an important component of coping with illness and
illness-related uncertainty. Normative theory and research on information seeking and …

The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of current research describing the
impact of language barriers on health care access and quality of care; and the role that …

Objective: To report Aboriginal patients' views about effective communication between
Aboriginal people and health service providers in Western Australian hospital settings …

In this study, I examined interpreters' self-perceived roles and their corresponding
communicative goals and strategies. Twenty-six professional interpreters (of 17 languages) …

Winner of the NCA Health Communication 2021 Distinguished Book Award. This book
examines interpreter-mediated medical encounters and focuses primarily on the …

The study explores how resettling refugees experience a new health environment and
develop health literacy practice. The concept of information resilience, which emerges from …

Background The end of life represents a therapeutic context that acutely raises cultural and
linguistic specificities, yet there is very little evidence illustrating the importance of such …

Social changes in European societies place migration and cultural diversity on the
European political agenda. The European initiative Migrant Friendly Hospitals (MFH) aims to …